EMMA DRAPER spent two years trying for a baby but died just four days after learning that she had fallen pregnant.

A WIDOWER is suing a hospital after his wife died just days after getting pregnant for the first time.

Emma Draper, 26, had been trying for a baby with her husband Peter for two years when their GP suggested IVF.

A pregnancy test came back positive just two weeks after the treatment started. But four days later, Emma suffered severe chest pains and fell into a coma.

She died of multiple organ failure caused by thrombosis – clotting of the blood.

Tests later revealed her death was triggered by complications with new medicine she was given for a pre-existing condition.

Devastated Peter, 33, said: “Blood specialists warned us there was a risk of clotting from changing Emma’s medication but nobody told us that IVF could be life-threatening.

“It’s meant to be something that brings life into this world, not takes it away. Emma was sensible. She would never have had IVF if she’d known that there was a chance she might die. We would have adopted.”

Emma was born with anti-phospholipid syndrome (APS), which made her blood prone to dangerous clotting.

After suffering a clot in her lung in 2001, the personal shopper was placed on the anti-coagulant warfarin.

But when she got pregnant in June 2010, doctors switched her to heparin, because warfarin can harm babies in the womb.

In February 2011, an inquest ruled Emma died as a result of complications with her pre-existing condition and IVF. Her consultant told the hearing cases of catastrophic APS were rare and the number related to pregnancy was tiny.

But he admitted that, in light of Emma’s death, he now mentions the risk to patients.

Van driver Peter, of Dagenham, Essex, has now launched legal proceedings against the doctors who treated her at Barts hospital in London.

A spokesman for the hospital said: “This is a tragic case and our thoughts are with the Draper family at this difficult time.

“An inquest found that Emma died from natural causes, which presented as a rare complication of pre-existing disease and fertility treatment.”

Blood clot danger

APS is an auto-immune disease that can cause abnormal blood clots in arteries and veins.

The condition, which is more common among women than men, is also known as sticky blood syndrome.

As many as one per cent of Brits are thought to suffer from some form of the syndrome, which is one of the leading causes of deep vein thrombosis.

Minor cases are treated with regular doses of aspirin while more severe sufferers require blood-thinning drugs.